First trip to Chuck E Cheese

Daddy working up a sweat for some tickets, lol.Hope's favorite ride & it was out of order but we still put about 10 tokens in it. I loved the name it was the KenChucky Derby Race aka Hope Farm she was singing Old McDonald while in the gate.I feel like we have deprived her since she is 2 1/2 and this is her first time to chuck e cheese. She had a great time & has asked to go back everyday since. It will be great because I can use it as a reward when she is good.

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn

Hope went to her sweet friend Kaitlyn's birthday at Paradise Pond on Friday. Hope and a few other girls made a mad dash for the dress up room but then Hope went to the bugs & dinosaurs my silly girl. Hope had a great time & is more excited then ever to turn 3 she has so many ideas for what she wants at her Birthday. This year I am going to do want she wants more then what I want so it will be very special for her.

Good Night Train

Hope's Good Night Train with everything that she needed to sleep with for the night.

ICE

We had a girls day after Christmas at the Gaylord Hope, Grandma Judy, Grandma Linda & I. We all walked around enjoying the atmosphere for the day & taking in ICE. I look forward to going every Christmas I just love to see all the amazing sculptures & I also seem to forget how cold it really is in there. Poor Hope she kept telling me Mama I am all done it's cold as I was posing her for another picture. She was a trooper & way excited to pick out another ornament to go on her Christmas tree at the gift shop after we got out of the freezing cold.

Polar Bear Cookies

Hope enjoying one of her favorite Holiday treats. How bad is it that my two year old is know at ever Starbucks within a 20 mile radius. She loves her polar bear cookies they are cute but very messy.

Snowball Fight

A huge smile 2 minutes after losing her snowball fight with Papa. If you were worried about my little girl having Monty Rex he now wears a tutu I am sure that is upsetting to most little boys.Hope loved the snow she did not understand why we could not go skiing if there was snow. Poor girl does not understand we live on the flat plains of Texas. She did have a great time eating & playing in the snow even if we did not get to ski.

Christmas Dinner

After Hope's nap we went over to his parents house for Christmas dinner & more Hope Christmas gifts. Hope was so excited about all the princess shoes her MiMi got her, she is a shoeaholic. I am not sure if it is a good thing my 2 year old needs her big girl panties, socks, shoes & bow to match her outfit. The other day I set an outfit out & she told me Mom it does not match this one is better & she was right I forgot we got matching socks for the outfit. Anytime she changes clothes we have to change panties so they match her nap outfit, play outfit, pj's, dance leo whatever she had on we change panties about 4 times a day, it is too funny but I love it.

Izzy & Hope

Hope & Izzy resting after all the Christmas morning excitement. Izzy was napping in Ryan's arms on the way to his parents.

Christmas Morning

Hope's first reaction to seeing the gifts Santa did not have time to wrap.Hope & IzzyDress up time!Hope asked Santa for princesses & a camera this year so we tried not to go over the top. She loved her treasure chest will the princess costumes she tried them all on at least 7 times. She is such a blessing so happy with the smallest things, I am going to miss this age one day.

Christmas Eve Service

Since it was so cold & snowing I completely forgot to take any pictures before the service & it was snowing hard when we got out so I did not get any good Church pictures this year. I took one of Hope wanting to be a princess not one of the three kings. Hope was so happy with Izzy on her shoulders all the way home, good thing because it took us over a hour to drive home in the snow storm. I can't complain because we had a wonderful white Christmas.

Boo Boo

Hope got her first big cut on her head a few days before Christmas. Our sweet neighbors came over to bring Hope a Christmas present and she got over excited and was running in the house like a crazy little girl. She feel in the kitchen and hit her head on the rod iron chair leg, I picked her up quickly and did not even know she was bleeding till my Mom came in the room. Ryan ran graped the phone and called 9-1-1. I had not even looked at her head or wiped the blood off and he had the paramedics on the way. I told him we do not need an ambulance she is okay so he then told the 9-1-1 operator the have a room ready for us at Baylor Grapevine we will be there in 10 minutes I really thought he was going to ask for a police escort. I quickly told him we just need to go to wal-greens get some butterfly band-aids and we will be okay. I have some rx- ointment butterfly band-aids and barbie band-aids on the top and we are good, Hope was fine after a Popsicle but she did have a big bump to go with her Christmas dress this year.